Career College Quality Questioned

Former students of many of Ontario’s private career colleges are demanding that the government take a look at the system as it currently operates, and perhaps bring some regulation into the mix.

Ontario currently spends $200-million in grants and loans to students every year, and is planning to increase the amount of available funds.

Annual student fees range between $10,000 to $20,000. However, only 50% of career college graduates end up landing a job in the field they studied. Students from publicly funded colleges fair much better at about 80%.

Former students have highlighted uninterested professors whose lessons simply require students to read chapters from a textbook out loud.

Hi Jen, so sadly misinformed. First, if you listen to the show most of the experiences people have had with private colleges have been positive, it was the host trying to make them turn negative. The stats that were compared the 50% to 80% were not correct, a total lie! The public colleges actually hide their related employment stat, just try and find it! Finally, tuition at the public colleges for international students is more than three times, in this case $4,472 compared to $14,650! See this link: http://www.stlawrencecollege.ca/programs-and-courses/full-time/programs/a_m/advertising-and-marketing-communications/kingston/
This is just one example, but they are ALL similar. Why so high? The taxpayers should not be subsidizing people from other countries to be educated in our schools. You know what that means? The International Student price is more reflective of what we pay behind the scenes for our public system! And I know for a fact, if they were to report the true costs it would be way, way higher. When you look at performance data for both public and private colleges as a whole, the outcomes are quite similar! Check the facts before you speak out.